Analysis of Precedents Related with Child Abuse to Protect Rights of Children

아동권리보호를 위한 아동학대 관련 판례분석

  • Received : 2013.12.30
  • Accepted : 2014.03.07
  • Published : 2014.05.30

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze precedents related with child abuse for protection of the rights of the child. There should be the law related with 'punishment for child abuse,' which is the grounds of punishment, to make a precedent in the law punishing for 'child abuse,' but there is the concept only for 'child abuse' in the Child Welfare Law, the fundamental law; therefore, for a direct judgment for punishment, only precedents of 'child abuse' related with loss of parental rights and judgements for criminal cases, civil cases and laws covering special cases have been made. For that reason, 'the special law related with punishment for child abuse cases' is desperately required (On last December 23, 2013, the special law related with punishment for child abuse cases passed the National Assembly). Hence, precedent analysis had performed by grouping precedent from 2000 to 2013 which were not judged as child abuse in trial but can be regarded as child abuse. When analyzing each precedent according to the contents of analysis and judgment by fact relevance in this study, problems which the current legislative system has were deducted through an implication of each case by diagnosing using diagraming after classifying lower instance terminated cases, which precedents of the Supreme Court and judgments sent to the Supreme Court were excluded, while excluding cases settled in the civil level and classifying analysis of civil case precedents which did not become a criminal case and completed as a civil case, analysis of criminal case precedents, classification of precedents of loss of the parental rights (regarding child abuse) and precedents of any other special laws. And compensatory tasks for special laws regarding punishment of child abuse were presented while suggesting compensatory tasks for the legislation regarding deducted problems.

본 연구의 목적은 아동권리보호를 위한 아동학대 관련 판례를 분석하는 것이다. 법에서 '아동학대'라 칭하여 판례가 나오기 위해서는 처벌 근거인 '아동 학대처벌' 관련법이 있어야 하는데, 기본법인 아동복지법에서의 '아동학대'개념만 있어 처벌을 위한 직접적 판시로는 친권상실관련 '아동학대' 판례와 형사범죄, 민사범죄, 특례법 판시만 내려지고 있어 '아동 학대범죄 처벌에 관한 특례법'이 절실하였다(작년 12월 23일 아동학대범죄처벌에 관한 특례법이 국회를 통과하였다). 이에 본 연구를 통해 재판상 아동학대라 판시하지는 않았으나, 아동학대로 볼 수 있는 2000-2013년 판례를 묶어 판례분석을 하였다. 본 연구에서는 각 판례들을 사실관계에 따른 분석, 판시내용에 따른 분석을 함에 대법원판례, 대법원에 올라간 판시를 제외한 하급심종결판례를 구분하면서 민사상 합의된 건은 제외하고 불법행위로 성립, 형사사건화 되지 않고 민사사건으로 종결된 민사상판례분석, 형사상판례분석, 친권상실(아동학대와 관련하여)판례구분, 그 밖의 특례법상의 판례를 구분하여 도식화 진단하여 각 판례의 시사점을 통해 현 법제가 갖고 있는 문제점을 도출하고 그에 대한 입법 상 보완과제를 제시하면서 아동학대범죄 처벌에 관한 특례법상의 보완과제를 제시하였다.

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